No Rest For The Wicked - Free Fleet Book 3

I enjoyed it, along with the previous books but this one seemed less polished than the others with a lot of grammar / typo issues.

No idea why people are rating less than 3*. If you want serious sci-fi there is plenty out there for you
This is well thought out and intelligent story telling
Ok so there are misspellings galore, punctuation a 5yr old could do better than, but the story, characters and detail are well written
One other thing, the Free Fleet could almost be a cult, there are enough motivational moments and speeches to embarrass a business seminar, but given the whole concept it does work

For some reason you turned well developed and strong characters into complete idiots in this book.

So the syndicate has cruelly ruled for decades now, thier propensity to put vicious and evil people in charge was established in books 1 & 2.

Salchar and his people knew something was wrong, but went into a trap anyway, why because it shows distrust if we don't. Hey our first team has 100% disappeared, so lets let Salchar walk right in.

Once the betrayal is fully exposed, again knowing the history of toture and enslavement the syndicate and those they prop up in power use, they order Salchar to surrender or his missing 8 people will be killed. These same betraying fools have also broken thier word twice... So what does Salchar do? Gives up and his people end up tortured and murdered.

His supporting cast is no better... A Syndicate leader challenges the free fleet to battle at a time of thier choosing... And what does free fleet command do? They accept the challenge letting the syndicate establish the when, where, and how of battle. Which is lunacy.

Meanwhile thier intelligence head Knows Salchar was in danger but did nothing because they would break cover by sending a message. Again if protecting your leader is not worth breaking cover what the hell are you doing?

I am only at 54% done with the book, but I find myself repeatedly stopping reading because I am annoyed that characters I had come to like are acting like fools.

I am sure some last-minute heroics and strategy will see Free Fleet victorious. But I can not be bothered, Micheal Chatfield ruined a large number of key characters at this point. He made Salchar from a strong leader into a fool who in any real-world military would need to be replaced. He was directly responsible for knowingly walking his people into a trap, knowingly told them surrender, and got them all tortured and most killed.

So here ends my desire to read about the Free Fleet. Which is a shame as I enjoyed the 10 realms and trapped mind project series also by Chatfield.

The story line is interesting. Changing perspective is interesting if not confusing and is a bit overdone. Book 3 is cluttered with typos. Misspelled and/or miss-selected words, subject verb agreement and miss-used pronouns. Book 3 of the series much worse than the other two books.

A fun and interesting story arc. It could do with an Extra proof . Reading though. Well sort-hvid Reading though.